STS 1 Prelims Flashcards
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- System of knowledge of the natural world gained through the scientific method.
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Science
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- Primarily interested in the acquisition of knowledge.
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Science
3
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- Preoccupied with the “know-why” resulting in new knowledge usually disseminated through science papers.
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Science
4
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- is a kind of human cultural activity which is practiced by people known as scientist and formerly called natural philosophers and savants.
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Science
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- is complex system of people, skills, facilities, knowledge, material or physical resources and technologies devoted and directed to the inquiry into and understanding of the natural world.
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Science
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- as a modern science is the dynamic cumulative inquiry into nature using the scientific method.
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Science
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Deals with the natural world.
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Science
8
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Concerned with WHAT IS (exist) in the natural world.
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Science
9
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Focuses on Research
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Science
10
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Discovering natural phenomena (knowledge)
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Science
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- Comes from Greek words tekhne meaning “art or craft” and logia meaning a ‘subject or interest”.
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Technology
12
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- Practical application of knowledge
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Technology
13
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- Science of industrial arts and manufacture
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Technology
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- Material products or result of human fabrication and making.
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Technology
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- A complex system of knowledge, skills, people, methods, tools, organization, facilities, materials, physical resources devoted and directed to the research, development, production as well operation of a new or improved product, process or services in a reproducible way.
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Technology
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- Is concerned with the know-how resulting in a new product or process distributed for commercial consumption or appropriated through patents.
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Technology
17
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Deals with how humans modify, change, alter or control the natural world.
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Technology
18
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Concerned with what can be or should be designed, made or developed from natural world and substances to satisfy human needs and wants.
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Technology